Typical SAHM with school aged kids day

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, these aren't lives.

Begone, troll

Not a troll. Think it's pathetic that women go to the gym, "do paperwork" (whatever), and get pedicures and call it a day. Hope they have more ami iron for their daughters.

I have a husband who travels frequently when not working from home. Our life would be chaos and I would be a resentful mess if I was back at my 60 hour a week career in finance which also included frequent travel. I had a tremendously successful career which I'm happy to talk to my children about. I'm also happy to teach them about being adaptable and that I could make the choice to do what was best for an entire family of people because I loved them. Our house is peaceful and their lives are better because of the choice my husband and I made. You may find that pathetic but I'm quite proud of all of the choices I've made as well as the home life we've created for our kids. Luckily your judgment doesn't affect me in any way. You may not think you are a troll but you certainly aren't the sort of woman I would hope my daughter turns out to be.

I'm not paying for college to see my daughter stay home.

Hopefully your daughter is smarter than her mom and will pay her own way through college. That way, she won't have any restrictions on the way in which she chooses to live her life. Or raise her children.

paid for - too late

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get up around 7:20. Wake kids up, fed, and out the door by 8. I drive them to school, back home by 9. Have light breakfast with DH who is retired. Go to gym together to workout with trainers at 11:00. Take a class usually spinning with DH. Shower. Get dressed.

Have lunch out. Come home. Run errands. Sometimes DH and I go to the movies. Pick up kids. Take them to various activities. Make dinner. Relax. Go to bed.

If your husband is retired why are you the one doing the school run every day?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Get up around 7:20. Wake kids up, fed, and out the door by 8. I drive them to school, back home by 9. Have light breakfast with DH who is retired. Go to gym together to workout with trainers at 11:00. Take a class usually spinning with DH. Shower. Get dressed.

Have lunch out. Come home. Run errands. Sometimes DH and I go to the movies. Pick up kids. Take them to various activities. Make dinner. Relax. Go to bed.

If your husband is retired why are you the one doing the school run every day?

Maybe he's homebound.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Get up at 6am cook breakfast for everyone and go for a run. I finish my run at 7am when everyone else is just getting up, have a shower, get the kids ready and take them to school. Get back, put in the laundry and clean the house, put in 3-4 hours work (from home), cook various dinners for the evening, pick up the kids, help them with homework and music practice, go for a bike ride (weather depending). Read books and play board games or talk with the kids, get lunches made for the following morning, have dinner with husband (kids dinner is early), go to bed.

If you're working 20 hours a week I'd call that a part time WAHM, not SAHM.

You. Do. Not. Get. To. Define. Me.

Ok, sure, call yourself whatever you want. I didn't mean it as an insult. I work 30 hours a week myself, mostly from home, and when asked, I tell people that I work part-time, not that I stay at home. (And that I love the job situation I've worked out!) You should define yourself however you want, but I do wonder why you took my comment as an insult?

Lol. Yeah. We do. If you work for pay, you by definition are not a sahm. No matter what you want to call yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get up around 7:20. Wake kids up, fed, and out the door by 8. I drive them to school, back home by 9. Have light breakfast with DH who is retired. Go to gym together to workout with trainers at 11:00. Take a class usually spinning with DH. Shower. Get dressed.

Have lunch out. Come home. Run errands. Sometimes DH and I go to the movies. Pick up kids. Take them to various activities. Make dinner. Relax. Go to bed.

If your husband is retired why are you the one doing the school run every day?

Maybe he's homebound.

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get up at 6am cook breakfast for everyone and go for a run. I finish my run at 7am when everyone else is just getting up, have a shower, get the kids ready and take them to school. Get back, put in the laundry and clean the house, put in 3-4 hours work (from home), cook various dinners for the evening, pick up the kids, help them with homework and music practice, go for a bike ride (weather depending). Read books and play board games or talk with the kids, get lunches made for the following morning, have dinner with husband (kids dinner is early), go to bed.

If you're working 20 hours a week I'd call that a part time WAHM, not SAHM.

You. Do. Not. Get. To. Define. Me.

Ok, sure, call yourself whatever you want. I didn't mean it as an insult. I work 30 hours a week myself, mostly from home, and when asked, I tell people that I work part-time, not that I stay at home. (And that I love the job situation I've worked out!) You should define yourself however you want, but I do wonder why you took my comment as an insult?

Lol. Yeah. We do. If you work for pay, you by definition are not a sahm. No matter what you want to call yourself.

There are that many "work from home" jobs out there? Sure, there is blogging, or running your own eBay type of business, or running a small business, but what else is there? The traffic in the DC area seems to prove that not many people "work from home" or "telecommute" (using quotes on purpose, because I don't think people do what they claim they do in that respect 100% of the time).

Why do so many SAHM's eat out every day? That adds up, big time. I get once or twice a week, but every work day? Come on. Let me guess, the husband's pay zero attention to the finances.

[Anonymous]

Those are clearly troll posts.

[Anonymous]

Mornings and afternoons are rushed because we have four kids.

I still have one at home part time (just mornings) so I don't really qualify but I'll still be home when she starts school full time.

Anyway, in the mornings while my 3 yo is at preschool, I clean up the kitchen from breakfast, make all the beds, and tidy up the house from the kids. Then I go to the gym (I rotate between regular cardio, yoga, spin, and barre) and then I'll run errands on my way home. Sometimes I'll meet moms from preschool for coffee.

I pick up DD and make lunch for us. Then I let her have some quiet time playing in her room while I prep dinner or read.

Then I take her to one of her afternoon activities. She does tumbling, dance, and a little gym class. Sometimes I'll take her to a local museum in the winter or the playground in the summer if I'm feeling especially energetic

Big kids start getting home at 3. I prepare a snack for them and we chat about their days then we pull out homework and try to get a little done before activities start. I usually do more dinner prep while homework is being worked on. Each of the older kids is in two activities so we are busy, busy, busy from 4 pm on going to one or more of their things.

Home by six at the latest and then dinner, bath, reading, bedtime. DH gets home around 6:30-7 and he helps with that stuff.

It's a pretty full day really. I don't have much time to sit around.

[Anonymous]

Reading through these, I would LOVE to be a SAHM to school aged kids. My husband offered when the kids were babies, but I wasn't in to it then. But when the kids are in school all day, it seems to be a lot of working out, cooking, reading, faffing around (I mean that in the nicest way possible). It sounds like my dream weekends on the rare days when DH takes the kids out all day. Who wouldn't want that to be their main activity?

FWIW, I like aspects of my job but I don't kind myself that I'm not out there curing cancer. I could easily make the switch and not feel bad if we had the money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, these aren't lives.

Begone, troll

Not a troll. Think it's pathetic that women go to the gym, "do paperwork" (whatever), and get pedicures and call it a day. Hope they have more ami iron for their daughters.

Oh fuck off.

/working mom

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, these aren't lives.

Begone, troll

Not a troll. Think it's pathetic that women go to the gym, "do paperwork" (whatever), and get pedicures and call it a day. Hope they have more ami iron for their daughters.

I have a husband who travels frequently when not working from home. Our life would be chaos and I would be a resentful mess if I was back at my 60 hour a week career in finance which also included frequent travel. I had a tremendously successful career which I'm happy to talk to my children about. I'm also happy to teach them about being adaptable and that I could make the choice to do what was best for an entire family of people because I loved them. Our house is peaceful and their lives are better because of the choice my husband and I made. You may find that pathetic but I'm quite proud of all of the choices I've made as well as the home life we've created for our kids. Luckily your judgment doesn't affect me in any way. You may not think you are a troll but you certainly aren't the sort of woman I would hope my daughter turns out to be.

I'm not paying for college to see my daughter stay home.

Wow. You think you're going to make your adult daughter's life decisions for her? How toxic.

Signed, working mom

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Get up at 6am cook breakfast for everyone and go for a run. I finish my run at 7am when everyone else is just getting up, have a shower, get the kids ready and take them to school. Get back, put in the laundry and clean the house, put in 3-4 hours work (from home), cook various dinners for the evening, pick up the kids, help them with homework and music practice, go for a bike ride (weather depending). Read books and play board games or talk with the kids, get lunches made for the following morning, have dinner with husband (kids dinner is early), go to bed.

If you're working 20 hours a week I'd call that a part time WAHM, not SAHM.

You. Do. Not. Get. To. Define. Me.

Ok, sure, call yourself whatever you want. I didn't mean it as an insult. I work 30 hours a week myself, mostly from home, and when asked, I tell people that I work part-time, not that I stay at home. (And that I love the job situation I've worked out!) You should define yourself however you want, but I do wonder why you took my comment as an insult?

Lol. Yeah. We do. If you work for pay, you by definition are not a sahm. No matter what you want to call yourself.

I've got one for you!
I am a physician. I only work 1-2 shifts per week, either a Friday overnight or Saturday overnight, sometimes both if they are busy and call me.
I do 95% of the childcare and household stuff during the week, no nanny.
What side am I on?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get up at 6am cook breakfast for everyone and go for a run. I finish my run at 7am when everyone else is just getting up, have a shower, get the kids ready and take them to school. Get back, put in the laundry and clean the house, put in 3-4 hours work (from home), cook various dinners for the evening, pick up the kids, help them with homework and music practice, go for a bike ride (weather depending). Read books and play board games or talk with the kids, get lunches made for the following morning, have dinner with husband (kids dinner is early), go to bed.

If you're working 20 hours a week I'd call that a part time WAHM, not SAHM.

You. Do. Not. Get. To. Define. Me.

Ok, sure, call yourself whatever you want. I didn't mean it as an insult. I work 30 hours a week myself, mostly from home, and when asked, I tell people that I work part-time, not that I stay at home. (And that I love the job situation I've worked out!) You should define yourself however you want, but I do wonder why you took my comment as an insult?

Lol. Yeah. We do. If you work for pay, you by definition are not a sahm. No matter what you want to call yourself.

Many Fed jobs. I am a work at home GS-15. $155k/year. 100% from home.

There are that many "work from home" jobs out there? Sure, there is blogging, or running your own eBay type of business, or running a small business, but what else is there? The traffic in the DC area seems to prove that not many people "work from home" or "telecommute" (using quotes on purpose, because I don't think people do what they claim they do in that respect 100% of the time).

Why do so many SAHM's eat out every day? That adds up, big time. I get once or twice a week, but every work day? Come on. Let me guess, the husband's pay zero attention to the finances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, these aren't lives.

Begone, troll

Not a troll. Think it's pathetic that women go to the gym, "do paperwork" (whatever), and get pedicures and call it a day. Hope they have more ami iron for their daughters.

I have a husband who travels frequently when not working from home. Our life would be chaos and I would be a resentful mess if I was back at my 60 hour a week career in finance which also included frequent travel. I had a tremendously successful career which I'm happy to talk to my children about. I'm also happy to teach them about being adaptable and that I could make the choice to do what was best for an entire family of people because I loved them. Our house is peaceful and their lives are better because of the choice my husband and I made. You may find that pathetic but I'm quite proud of all of the choices I've made as well as the home life we've created for our kids. Luckily your judgment doesn't affect me in any way. You may not think you are a troll but you certainly aren't the sort of woman I would hope my daughter turns out to be.

I'm not paying for college to see my daughter stay home.

Ok. No one really cares about your financial issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reading through these, I would LOVE to be a SAHM to school aged kids. My husband offered when the kids were babies, but I wasn't in to it then. But when the kids are in school all day, it seems to be a lot of working out, cooking, reading, faffing around (I mean that in the nicest way possible). It sounds like my dream weekends on the rare days when DH takes the kids out all day. Who wouldn't want that to be their main activity?

FWIW, I like aspects of my job but I don't kind myself that I'm not out there curing cancer. I could easily make the switch and not feel bad if we had the money.

I could too, but DH wouldn't respect me and my parents raised me to always have my own income/keep my foot in the door (even if part-time for awhile) so I 'need' to work.

I'm fortunate to be a GS-15 WAH Fed. DH makes 3 times my salary, but we use my work's health benefits and I am also contributing towards retirement.